Description

Ugly Duckling Presse, paperback

Publication Date: November 15, 2024

Translated by: John O’Kane & Ekaterina Petrova

Publisher Marketing:

“This book brings in contact the essay form (the philosophic, metaphysical exploration) and poetry (poetic explosion), like two ever-moving, rotating grindstones that hone one another.” Orfeas Apergis

With a near-compulsive insistence,Notes of the Phantom Womanaddresses the question of what reality is and how we construct it. Ranging in subject from the presence of pigeons in the city, the dead ends of logic, how geological time becomes personal, and the boundary between statistics and Hell, the poems are connected by a rigorous inquiry into the illusions of thinking, the blind spots of utopianism, and the trouble with moral positioning. Results of such a task arepredictablyunpredictable; a healthy dose of black humor helps the poetry go down.